If Thrasher is Vogue for skaters, 53-year-old Jake Phelps is the sport’s Anna Wintour.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

When Spanish authorities sentenced this provocative musician to prison for “glorifying terrorism,” his dedicated fans helped him make a daring escape across the border.

A friendship born out of the ruins of a nation, a dangerous journey home, and a 40-year search for the truth.

Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.

How the media and law enforcement fingered the wrong man for the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.

Nature is already socking away a lot of carbon for us. It could soak up a lot more—if we help.

The long struggle for workers’ rights at poultry plants is now more urgent than ever

An American mercenary, who did security for Trump rallies, attempts a amphibious coup along the Venezuelan border.

The passengers of the Diamond Princess came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus.

The global scramble for this vital item has exposed the harsh realities of international politics and the limits of the free market.

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.

After leaving Bon Appétit, the chef now has her own show—where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.

Sewage epidemiology has been embraced in other countries for decades, but not in America. Will Covid change that?

Blake Bailey was my favorite teacher. Years later, he forced himself on me. Why did I seek his approval for so long?

An interview with Chase Strangio, who has won a series of landmark court cases in his role as ACLU deputy director for transgender justice.

Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11.

James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.

For nearly 200 years, San Francisco has been the last stop of petty thieves, con artists and killers. Iva Kroeger was all three.

An argument for outing a notorious message board member: “Under Reddit logic, outing Violentacrez is worse than anonymously posting creepshots of innocent women, because doing so would undermine Reddit’s role as a safe place for people to anonymously post creepshots of innocent women. I am OK with that.”

She was mocked for her clothes and for her hair. Tabloids published nude photos of her and covered her custody fight. The defense called her hysterical. The judge condescended to her. She lost. And then she became a punchline. Twenty years later, thanks in part to The People v. O.J. Simpson, Marcia Clark is finally being seen in full.

On the Susan B. Anthony List, the anti-choice power broker:

In a year when 11 women are running for the U.S. Senate, including six pro-choice Democratic incumbents, the efforts of a group founded by second-wave feminists, named for a first-wave feminist, could once again be a major force in reducing female representation in Congress.

I am gay. I am Mormon. I am married to a woman. I am happy every single day. My life is filled with joy. I have a wonderful sex life. And I’ve been married for ten years, and plan to be married for decades more to come to the woman of my dreams.

“For much of my life, there was something about my mother I felt almost allergic to. As she approached death, for the first time I found I didn’t merely love her, I actually liked her.”

How a retired Swiss banker ended up behind bars in Thailand for uncovering a scheme that included the Malaysian prime minister and billions of in laundered money that was spent on everything from parties with Paris Hilton to backing for The Wolf of Wall Street.